My Letter to John Boehner

It's been a while since I posted but current events have prompted me to fire up my computer and send a letter to House Speaker Boehner.  Here is what I wrote:

Dear Mr. Boehner,

Thank you for your spinelessness in the Republican Party.  Because of you I have decided to leave the Republican Party.  I will no longer support the GOP and will do EVERYTHING in my power to help support Tea Party and Libertarian candidates. 

Your decision to remove fiscal conservatives from the Financial Services Committee because they are doing the right thing and not towing your party line is the last straw.  You have shown that you and your ilk are no better than any other Progressive, Big Government politician, whether he is a Republican OR a Democrat.  Your policies have ensured the demise of the Republican Party and the GOP.  Welcome to the new Whig Party Mr. Boehner because I am DONE with you. 

I will now make it my mission to help support candidates that represent MY values and ones that are more concerned about the preservation of the United States of America and our Constitution than their own political power.  You may choose to believe that I am only one person and you will disregard this message.  Know this however.  This is NOT the response of a single individual.  I speak for a multitude  of hard working Americans that believe in our country and the Constitution and are SICK and TIRED of your ineptness and Progressive, Big Government power grabbing.  The days of the career politician have come and are now GONE.  Now will be the time of responsible candidates who TAKE THEIR RESPONSIBILITY to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America SERIOUSLY. 

It's time for FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY.  If Congress played by the same rules as the rest of American citizens, then you and the rest of Congress would be locked up for financial FRAUD.  It's simple.  DON'T SPEND MORE THAN YOU TAKE IN!  Instead you spend whatever you like and then increase the debt ceiling, print more money and increase taxes to make up for your fiscal irresponsibility.  It would be like me taking out a credit card, maxing it out, getting a NEW credit card so I could spend more, going over to my copy machine and photo copying trillion dollar bills and then stealing from my neighbor to cover the rest. 

But I digress . . . this is about you and the end of the Republican Party and the GOP.  It is time to replace your bloated elephant with an AMERICAN BALD EAGLE.  We are NOT about Republican or Democrat.  We are about COMMON SENSE and RESPONSIBILITY.  From here on out I make it my calling to rally RESPONSIBLE, COMMON SENSE individuals, whether they are on the Right OR the Left to help take back our country from career political HACKS like you.  Consider this your future PINK SLIP and thank you again for showing your TRUE COLORS to the American People.

Sincerely,

Dwight Sanders

Proud Tea Party Member and NEW Conservative Libertarian

What Happened to American Exceptional-ism?

I remember it like it was yesterday.  Being and kid and watching "The Adventures of Superman" after school on TV.  I might not have realized it at the time, but this might have been where I learned about American Exceptional-ism.  Day after day I watched that show and day after day a was reminded that I could be GREAT because I lived in The United States of America.  If you don't remember the intro to the show, watch it here:


So what happened to our country where we aren't allowed to think that we are exceptional any more?  Why is it that even Superman has to turn his back on "The American Way?"



Don't we live in the free-est country on this planet?  Don't "American's" have more opportunity at success than in ANY place in the world?  Isn't that why people from all over the world flock to the U.S. for better opportunity and a better life? (read Mexico, etc.)

I think we all know the answer to that question, well at least everyone who didn't receive a trophy for coming in LAST place when they were growing up.

It's time to turn this ship around folks.  If you are one of those parents who has a child that gets a trophy for everything that he/she does, even when they come in LAST place, you need to get off your collective butts and teach your nanny state kid something useful.  Take all of those trophy's into the backyard and BURN them with your child watching and then have a meaningful conversation explaining that people should only get a trophy for being EXCEPTIONAL.  And if you are NOT exceptional then you have to WORK HARDER to become exceptional and receive that trophy.

People, in general. don't get better by having things handed to them on a silver platter and WINNING all the time.  People learn by FAILING and then working harder for the next time.  Then if they fail again, they keep working harder until they SUCCEED.

It's time time revive American Exceptional-ism in our country, put it has to start with parents teaching their kids that they have to work harder to get better.  If you don't, then don't be surprised when your kids end up at Occupy Wall Street and start demanding that they are ENTITLED to free education, healthcare, jobs, homes, food, etc.

I want MY Superman back!  I want Truth, Justice and THE AMERICAN WAY and NOT "all that other stuff".

South Carolina Debates

Tonight was the Fox News Republican debate in South Carolina and I have to say that for the "first time in my adult life" to coin a phrase, I finally feel confident that ANY one of these republican presidential candidates will be a vast improvement over our current president.

The night started out with Romney on the defense because of all the attack ad questions but under the circumstances I think he held his own.  All the other candidates did a great job and looked strong.  It's the first time I've seen each of them look Presidential.  For a link to Fox News click here.

Anyway, it's good to see that we are finally seeing some life out of the candidates.

Government Over Private Sector Jobs? I Don't Think So . . .

Today from "The Hill", Democrat Senator Harry Reid said that government jobs must take priority over private sector jobs.

In response to Mitch McConnell's accusation (and in my opinion, correct assessment) that Democrats were purposefully pursuing higher taxes as part of the teacher/first-responder bill, S. 1723, so that Republicans would oppose it, Reid stated, "It's very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine; it's the public-sector jobs where we've lost huge numbers, and that's what this legislation is all about."

First of all, WHAT PLANET ARE YOU LIVING ON, HARRY REID where you believe that the private sector is doing "just fine"!?

As a person who is currently watching a MAJOR layoff happen at the company he is at, I can assure you that the private sector jobs ARE NOT "just fine".

As for the public-sector "losing huge numbers" of jobs, that's just a load of crap.

Now that I've gotten that off my chest, let's look at some cold hard numbers.

According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, since Obama took office:

• Approximately 2.2 million people have lost their jobs.
• 1.6 million jobs were lost in the private sector
• 600 thousand jobs were lost in the public sector.

Maybe it's just me but I think that the private sector is doing a LOT worse than the public sector.  Here are a few charts to illustrate our economy since Obama became President:

President Obama also promised that his Stimulus Plan "had to be passed RIGHT NOW" and if it was passed then unemployment wouldn't go above 8%.  Below is the unemployment chart showing Obama's predictions on where unemployment would be if we didn't pass the stimulus plan; where he said it would be after passing the plan; and IN RED where the unemployment ACTUALLY IS as a result of passing the stimulus plan.

Maybe I'm just letting the numbers blind me to what my heart, feelings and emotions tell me should have happened by passing this exorbitant boondoggle of a debt bill, but . . . I DON'T THINK IT WORKED!  In fact, according to Obama's own calculations, if we would have done NOTHING AT ALL we would have been much better off than we are now.  So forgive me if I look at the facts and think that this new "Jobs Bill" isn't going to work either!!!

Let's use some common sense here and look at some more facts:

1. Government DOESN'T create jobs.  In fact it can't "create" anything.  The only thing that it CAN do is TAX one group of people and use that money to give it to another group of people.  It's called, redistribution of wealth, or, if you are confused by that terminology, it's ALSO called THEFT or STEALING.
2. Government can only TAX from people that DO create jobs.
3. If the people who create jobs have less money they won't be able to create as many jobs and will, in fact, probably have to lay off their current employees.
4. Something that most people don't think about; taxes collected from people in the public sector with government jobs DOESN'T COUNT!  If the government uses other peoples money to create a job and then TAXES that same job it's just taking back the SAME MONEY that it just gave away!  Let's say a THIEF steals 2 credit cards.  On one credit card he spends a lot of money.  He then uses the other credit card to pay the bill.  He keeps doing this until both credit cards are MAXED OUT.  Once they are maxed out he calls the credit card company and asks for a credit increase (or, he RAISES HIS DEBT LIMIT!)

People, this is what we are doing today.  We have to wake up and say STOP THE MADNESS!!  We have to realize that government can't create.  It can only take and redistribute.  Only Entrepreneurs and Business people can create new wealth in this country and the only way we can do this is by getting out of the entrepreneurs way, reducing regulation, lowering taxes.  

This is the only way we can "expand our base" (or in plain English, create more money so that there is more of it to go around).  I'll leave "expanding the base" for another article however and let you ponder these tidbits till next time.

Students Forced to Stand and Say Mexican Pledge of Allegiance

In an era when teachers are being told that they can't say the American Pledge of Allegiance in class anymore, apparently it is okay to have students memorize and recite the Mexican Pledge of Allegiance.

In a Blaze exclusive, in McAllen, TX, approximately 10 miles from the Texas/Mexican boarder, students at Achieve Early College High School were forced to memorize and stand and say the Mexican Pledge of Allegiance as a part of their grade.  One student, 15 year old Brenda Brinsdon refused to participate and recorded the event.


"I just thought it was out of hand, I didn't think it was right," she told The Blaze.  "Reciting pledges to Mexico and being loyal to it has nothing to do with learning Spanish."

Brinsdon's offence of the assignment from teacher Reyna Santos's class was primarily because it took place during "Freedom Week," the week after the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, and on U.S. Constitution Day, which happens to be the same day as Mexico's Independence Day.

"Why are we doing their independence when it's Freedom Week and it's also Constitution Day?" she said.

People, parents, and citizens of The United States of "AMERICA", we need to wake up and start taking some action.  If you have a child in school today, you need to ask them what they are being taught.  You need to get a copy of the curriculum for your children and READ IT all the way through.  As a former teacher, this is their weakness.  Because of the bureaucracy in the school districts, schools usually provide a very detailed curriculum of exactly what they will be teaching your children.  PARENTS:  they are hiding it in plain sight and it is up to you to expose what they are doing.

Get your child's curriculum.  Ask your child what he or she is being taught.  Ask the teachers what they are teaching.  Do it NOW, or else the next time you see your kids after they graduate will be protesting at Occupy Wall Street.

Shredding the Constitution: from suspending elections, less democracy to Super Committee's

I know that there are some people out there today that would just rather bury their heads in the sand than acknowledge the signs of people on the Left wanting to take our Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights and shred it into little tiny pieces.  It's also frustrating that the media seems to be one of the ones whose head is stuck in the ground.  Well let me re-phrase.  Either the media is actively ignoring the stories about our sacred documents being denigrated or it is complicit and is helping accomplish it's very destruction.

Take for example the recent article by Peter Orszag, former director for the Obama administration for the Office of Management and Budget, entitled, "Too Much of a Good Thing" from The New Republic magazine.  In the article, Orszag decries the partisan bickering going on in Congress and blames it for nothing getting done at a government level.  His primary example is the recent debt-limit debate that had Congress and the President at odds.

What's his solution to the situation?  In his words, we need to "minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions.  In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic."

Well, you're right about one thing Mr. Orszag, it DOES sound radical.  Let me clarify your desire a little more for people.  What you would really like to have happen is to take away the Constitutions ability for "Checks and Balances" that prevent crazy ideas and policies from both the Left and the Right from being passed.  Mr. Orszag,  there is a reason the Constitution was written the way it was and this issue is expressed clearly in what is known as the Separation of Powers.  If you were familiar AT ALL with the Constitution you would realize that what you are so eager to get rid of is EXACTLY why we need it.

Unfortunately for all of us, and I'm sure Mr. Orszag is pleased with this, we are already bypassing the Separation of Powers with the new 12 member Congressional "Super Committee" made up of 6 Republicans and 6 Democrats.  Why is the "Super Committee" important?  Here are a few things that it has the ability to do:

1. Bills created by the committee are guaranteed an up or down vote.
2. When the bills reach the floor they cannot be modified with amendments by House or Senate members.
3. Bills created by the committee cannot be filibustered.

In other words, this committee gives 12 people the power of the entire Congress with no opportunity for dissent or change and whatever they come up with will be greased  straight through to the President.  So much for Separation of Powers.  This "Super Committee" could essentially eliminate the power of Congress altogether.

But if none of that works, there is always the idea by N.C. Governor Bev Perdue.  (The Blaze)She stated yesterday that, "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover.  I really hope that someone can agree with me on that," she said, "You want people who don't worry about the next election."

Gee Bev, that sounds like a great idea.  After all, if we can't bypass the Constitution and show these horrible policies down the American peoples throats any other way, maybe we can just suspend the elections so that we can make sure we stay in power....  I think the last time I heard about this type of action was when I was studying Communist Russia or Nazi Germany.  After all, we all know that the people at TOO STUPID to be able to elect a representative form of government that will push forward our hard leftist plans.

Sorry Bev.  On that you are wrong.  2012 is going to be the year where the sane people will take back the asylum and put you all back in your padded cells.  It's time to stop this craziness.  It's time to re-institute common sense back into our government.  Folks, it's time to take back our Constitution and get back to it's basic principals.  2012.